Following his victory against Sam Baird in yesterday’s wildcard round, China’s Jin Long caused a real shock today at the Haikou World Open by sending home favourite Ding Junhui crashing out of the tournament with a 5-1 win. Elsewhere, there were wins for 2011 world finalists John Higgins and Judd Trump, as well as Michael Holt who maintained his recent strong form…
This morning saw the start of the Haikou World Open from Hainan Island with the always contentious wildcard round and it was not to be plain sailing for all of the main tour players as two were sent crashing out of the tournament on day one…
Day one of this season’s Welsh Open and so far we have seen victories for the reigning world and UK champions, as well as an impressive success for the evergreen Steve Davis who extended Ali Carter’s miserable run with a deciding frame victory in Newport…
Day two completed in Munich and the line-up for the last four is complete as Stephen Hendry rounded off an entertaining day’s play by edging out Michael Holt to join Martin Gould, Joe Perry and Stephen Maguire in the semi-finals…
Day one has been completed in Munich at the PTC12 event and among those through to the last eight are seven-times world champion Stephen Hendry and Northern Ireland’s Mark Allen. Click below for all of the day’s results as well as the updated projected seedings list…
This Saturday morning has seen the start of PTC11 which will be played to a finish on Monday afternoon, but over the course of the last two days we have also seen the PTC12 event played to the last 16 in Sheffield, a round-up of which you can now read below…
Michael Holt has taken his second PTC title this evening with a 4-1 victory against Welshman Dominic Dale in Sheffield. The win lifts him up 37th in the latest projected seedings and up into the top eight of the PTC Order of Merit, while Dale also climbs into the top 24…
Today saw the second half of the draw get underway in Shanghai as Martin Gould came back from the dead against Ding Junhui to keep his top 16 hopes alive while a damaging defeat for Stephen Hendry ensured that he will be forced to qualify for the UK Championship for the first time in my living memory this year…